Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HARRY TRUMAN NEVER MAILED...
...engaged me in a joshing Socratic dialogue. His observations seemed random but formed a pattern spelling out a series of directives for his subordinates. Both Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson had died within the previous two months, he noted. With them the old China policy and the old Viet Nam policy had been buried. "At that time, you opposed us. We also opposed you. So we are two enemies," he laughed...
Finally and fundamentally, you must be the kind of person capable of passing the buck in the first place. This is an art, after all. For Harry Truman, the buck stopped somewhere. For the true buck passer it never stops, but is constantly being turned over in his fingers, heads and tails, waiting for the moment of accusation when it may be gracefully flipped to a patsy. When a run-of-the-mill culprit says, "I did it because I was overtired," he implies that he is essentially a better person than his particular action indicates. But by adding...
...every crisis Nixon stood by Israel more firmly than almost any other President save Harry Truman. He admired Israeli guts. Though convinced that Israel's occupation of Arab territories strengthened anti-Western radical forces, he understood that the reverse was not true; pressuring Israel in concert with radical forces was more likely to further Soviet than Western interests. By a different route, Nixon came to the same conclusion as I: the American national interest required a demonstration of Soviet and radical inability to achieve Arab objectives, and no progress could be made until at least moderate Arabs were willing...
...Feingolds have little aptitude for it. Irving Howe, Susan Sontag, Alfred Kazin, Leslie Fiedler, Norman Podhoretz, Elizabeth Hardwick, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Gates, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Donald Barthelme, Jerzy Kosinski and Truman Capote do not come to their party. They miss quite a scene. Among the uncelebrated guests is a Holocaust survivor who literally levitates the living room with horror stories. Lucy also rises to the occasion with a Christian-pagan vision rooted in agriculture, bacchanalia and fertility symbols. The reader is left suspended with images of unreachable men locked in "the glory of their martyrdom...